University Antisemitism Discrimination Complaints and Lawsuits
- U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigates antisemitism at Yale and the Univ of Michigan (May 2024); MIT, UC Berkeley, and Rutgers (March 2024).
- Federal civil rights complaints: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara (May 2024), Sarah Lawrence College (March 2024).
- Settlements with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights: University of Michigan, City Univ. of New York, and Lafayette College (June 2024).
- Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened investigations into Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Univ. of Minnesota, Ohio State, Temple Univ., Muhlenberg College, and others (January 2024); Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL.); Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT); UC Berkeley; Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA); SUNY Rockland Community College (Suffern, NY), UC Santa Barbara (March 2024); Lehigh Univ., UC Davis, Ohio State, Univ. of Virginia, Princeton (April 2024).
- Private lawsuits: Jewish students sue Univ. of California, Los Angeles (June 2024); Columbia & Barnard (February 2024, amended June 2024); Haverford College, Northwestern Univ., and UC Davis (May 2024); and MIT (March 2024, amended May 2024).
- Six committees of the U.S. House of Representatives are investigating antisemitism at 10 universities: Barnard College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles (June 2024).
Other universities
- Drew University (Madison, NJ) reached agreement with the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Education Department to address antisemitic incidents campus environment. (May 2024)
- MIT faces federal lawsuit for violating students’ rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (March 2024)
- Middlebury College: StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice Title VI federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (Feb. 2024)
- Harvard University: Alumni lawsuit alleges that ‘rampant antisemitism’ is devaluing their degree (Feb. 2024); Kestenbaum v. Harvard (Jan. 2024)
- Johns Hopkins: U.S. Department of Education investigation (Feb. 2024)
- Columbia Univ.: Federal civil rights lawsuit (Feb. 2024), class action suit alleging antisemitic harassment and “a second-class education” for Jewish students (April 2024)
- StandWithUs letters to Ohio State University, and (with Alums for Campus Fairness) Northwestern University and Lehigh University (Jan. 2024)
- Yoek Ackerman v. Rutgers Law School (Jan. 2024)
- Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish on Campus today complaint regarding American University (Jan. 2024)
- Kestenbaum v. Harvard College (Jan. 2024)
- McMaster University class action lawsuit (Dec. 2023)
- Canel v. School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Dec. 2023)
- Canaan v. Carnegie Mellon University (Dec. 2023)
- Brandeis Center v. University of California (Nov. 2023)
- Ingber et al v. New York University (Nov. 2023)